The project is work in progress!
As I mentioned that I had been working on iPhone App since the end of September, it is still work in progress. Some people are aware of some posts in my Japanese site.
Since I am focusing on Japanese version first, I did not post a lot in this site.
iPhone APP I am targeting
The APP I am targeting is a tool to organize all information related this blog into an APP.
Since blog is just posting articles and it is not really organized well. There is a tag for each article, but it is not really enough to find out some information from the past posts.
A good example is recipe. I also sometime looked for a recipe I posted. However it is not really easy to find out. Actually, it is not very hard when I am using PC. However, it is very hard to find out on a smart phone. Since there is no category listing side menu on a mobile site.
I have to go to a regular PC site and adjust the display size to find a post.
It is inconvenient when I cook something in a kitchen. It would be nice to see it on a smart phone other than PC.
There are some similar information from my posts.
Web site is one of solutions
Build a web site is one of solution to organize the information. So originally, I was thinking to have a web site to organize some useful information from the posts. However, I realized that it is much more convenient if I can access such information from my smart phone.
In this case, a web site won't be the best solution since it is probably not really optimized for smart phone such as display size and basic operation.
All major services provide a dedicated APP for the best user experience.
On-going project is "Let's GO!"
So I called my project "Let's GO". "GO" means "Group Organizer".
The app will integrate "News" feature which is something like "mail magazine". Instead of sending a lot emails to subscribers, I post into "cloud (internet)" to share the news which includes a summary of new articles, events information, timely information such as Mt. Whitney lottery.
Also, I will integrate a reservation feature for one-on-one session with people who are interested in information I am sharing. For a real time communication, a messenger / chat feature is also included.
Then, all useful information will be organized in a cloud database and provide the access from a smart phone.
The concept is a web data in a pocket.
Internationalization is one of time consuming effort
I really want to share the information world wide. However majority of reader is still Japanese. Therefore, I will focus on Japanese edition and try to support English for a long run. Since internationalization effort on Smart phone APP is not small and I do not have time to do the both for now. So I will try to release an APP in Japanese and try to add English menu / contents later.
